Schalk



Apr. 17,1923. 1,452,376

' K. P. GOTTSCHALK FILLiNG APPARATUS FOR MATCH DIPPING MACHINES Filed March 25; 1922v macaw QAzQJZWRk a Patented Apr. 17, 1923 UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

KARL PAUL GOTTSCHALK, 0F DRESDEN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY STAIER, O]? s GRUNAU NEAR ROSSWEIN, SAXONY, GERMANY.

FILLING APPARATUS FOR MATCH-DIPPING MACHINES.

Application filed. March 25', 1922. Serial No. 5%,946.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL PAUL Gor'r- SCHALK, engineer, a subject of the Republic of Saxony, German Republic, and'resident of 19 Reickerstrasse, Dresden, Republic of Saxony, German Republic, have invented a new and useful Filling Apparatus for Match-Dipping Machines, of which the tollowing is a specification.

The present invention has for its object a filling apparatus for match dipping machines, used for automatically sup plying the igniting material from a container into a receptacle in such a manner that the latter remains constantly filled with the igniting material up to the same height and, therefore, said material is transmitted 0 sup plied in the same quantity to the single matches.

F or this purpose, the container is separated from the receptacle by a partition provided with an opening or recess and a filling disc provided with grooves slanting towards the receptacle rotates within the said container in such a manner that the igniting material within the container is elevated or moved upwards by the grooves of the rotating filling disc and is delivered into the hollow chamber of the receptacle during the passage of the grooves along the opening or recess provided in the partition.

The object of the present invention is represented on the drawing annexed to the description in one form of construction-Fig. 1 is a plan, Fig; 2 a vertical section to line AB of F 1 and Fig. 3 a section to line C-D of Fig. 1. i

As clearly seen from the drawing a is the receptacle, Z) the container and c a partition separating the receptacle from the container. cl is an opening or recess on the periphery of the partition 0. e is a dipping disc rotatably arranged within the receptacle. f are scrapers provided in a known manner on the front surface of the dipping disc 6 and ensuring a good stirring of the igniting material. g are annular grooves provided on the periphery of the dipping disc. The matches to be dipped project into said grooves, as represented in Fig. 8. h is a scraper projecting into the grooves g g for controlling and adjusting the thickness of the igniting material supplied by the dipping disc. v

The igniting material within the receptacle a is supplied by the dipping disc 6 in an upward direction and delivered to the ends of the matches as clearly seen from Fig.3.

Z: is a disc provided with grooves 2' and used for maintaining a constant height or level of the igniting material within the container 5. Said grooves are slanting towards the partition 0 and the arrangement of the. dipping disc in proportion to the recess or opening provided in the partition 0 is such that the grooves passalong the re cess during the rotation of the disc 70 provided with grooves 2'. On the passage mentioned during the rotation of the disc is,

the igniting material collected within the grooves during said rotation is enabled to run into the recess provided in the partition.

It the receptacle a is filled up to such a height or level that the liquid igniting material closes or covers, so as to speak, the recess, the igniting material can naturally not run ofl' out of the single grooves but returns back into the container during the continued rotation of the disc 6 provided with grooves g g in such a manner that the igniting material can. automatically be kept within the receptacle a on a defined level or height.

lVhat Iclaim is:

In a filling apparatus for match dipping machines, in combination with a. receptacle and a container arranged in front of said receptacle, a filling disc rotating within said container, grooves provided on the periphery of the disc mentioned and slanting towards the receptacle, a partition interposed be tween the container and the receptacle and i an opening or recess provided in said par tition for allowing the'surplus of the igniting material sup lied within the slanting grooves of the fil ing disc to run back into the container.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name this 15t-hday ofFebruary, 1922. 1

KARL vPAUL GOT-TSCHALK. 

